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firmly, printing a Receipt to dress a Turtle from Elizabeth Smith's 18th-century The Compleat Housewift. The ..

... killing of elephants fo r tusks today, I love well-carved old ivories. I am willing to be intrigued by relics of cock-fights or slavery. I would not drink turtle soup, but I would not let political correctness lessen my liking for tortoiseshell, nor my admiration ...

Published: Thursday 18 September 1997
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1054 | Page: 86 | Tags: none

An Ideal Present The Coming of the Flowers by A. W. ANDERSON A fascinating account of the origin and history

... Hogarth has become Agnes pose in visiting the United States. Then, of course, there was slavery, Wickfield, and he allows himself the Then, of course, there was slavery, luxury of imagining her still alive and and he made his opinion of t hat clear married ...

Published: Tuesday 25 December 1951
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1620 | Page: 217 | Tags: none

COU TRY LIFE-APRIL 3, 1969 783 3.-LEEDS TOWN HALL. Many A)llericans regarded it as the grandest building in ..

... vVashington. A few Americans were frankly appalled Delegates to the by the industrial slums. Delegates to the great 1842 anti-slavery convention in London (which began the tradition of international conferences) later toured Britain and sent home a series ...

Published: Thursday 03 April 1969
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1031 | Page: 75 | Tags: none

C 0 LLEC T 0 RS' QUESTIONS

... the piece appears to be of high quality; the elaborate style of decoration dates from the middle of the 19th century. ANTI-SLAVERY DEVICE 1 enclose a photograph of a cast iron plaque which 1 bought some time design appears to be identical to that on a Wedgwood ...

Published: Thursday 20 September 1973
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2725 | Page: 91 | Tags: none

death in 1826. This he did very faithfully even though his own tastes ·ere often for something He also took

... even though his own tastes ·ere often for something He also took an more austere. He also took an enlightened view over slavery, but realising little could be done in the context of contemporary attitudes he became one of the prime movers of the American ...

Published: Thursday 03 January 1974
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 427 | Page: 53 | Tags: none

THE EDWARDIAN SET

... below. The aristocracy and the upper including the prothe horizons like the loose i\·ory fingers of a hug fan. Freedom from Slavery Through the end of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th, during which the feudal structure of human society ...

Published: Thursday 05 May 1966
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 995 | Page: 119 | Tags: none

by JEREMY MUSSO , ' . ~0' .-. •o&T HOUa&. the 18th and 19th centuries, boat-houses which served the parks

... transport or fishing. Boating could, of course, be enjoyed for its meditative qualities. While preparing his campaign against slavery, Bishop Wilberforce lived at Rayrigg Hall on Lake Windermere. Every day, he would row across from one of the oldest surviving ...

Published: Thursday 01 August 1996
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1063 | Page: 44 | Tags: none

COGNAC. CART DE ELL. S INCE 1715. DE ELL. S INCE 1715. 1715. COGNAC. CART For more information on Home

... ogging, and Hull Council, seem unaware that virtually all authenti c illustrative material about slavery and the slave-trade was produced by the anti-slavery lobby. Prints offlo~gings and diagrams of slave ships showing the appalling overcrowding and lack ...

Published: Thursday 15 December 1994
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 8414 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

town's river defences to prevent a recurrence of the 1978 distaster, principally by building a flood wall along ..

... Albert Memorial. Thomas Clarkson, a Quaker in the Wisbech tradition of Dissent, died after a lifetime devoted to the anti-slavery cause in 1846, although the memorial was not unveiled until November 1881, by which date Scott had died. Now the sandstone ...

Published: Thursday 12 March 1981
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1947 | Page: 109 | Tags: none

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... efficient on the lawn. Cutting height adjustment up to 6. Like all HA YTER machines it is top of its class. Abolish lawn slavery, post coupon today for booklet. == C) == C) ..Q Q,) '- ' p ~$! ~\\, ~~~~:;~~~~=-~d i \\ ~;;;;;;;;. ;;;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;;;; ...

Published: Thursday 19 April 1962
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 448 | Page: 82 | Tags: none

synonymous with the name of Wedgwood. lt

... Humanitarian in the small slave cameo medallion, thousands of which were issued for distribution to those involved in anti-slavery propaganda. It shows a supplicant slave in chains and is inscribed: Am I not a man and a brother. To most people, jasper ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1985
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1312 | Page: 133 | Tags: none

By WILFRID WARD

... American representatives made while the American representatives made extensive reference to the Union case and the abolition of slavery, neither king made any remark which could have been interpreted as taking sides. Both spoke of their high regard for the American ...

Published: Thursday 05 June 1986
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1326 | Page: 256 | Tags: none